PHOTOGRAPHY
I’ve been taking pictures of the choir I sing with, The London Lucumi Choir for several years now. Many of these albums are on Facebook, the most comprehensive of which is the albumย choir people Here’s a new picture of Charlene at yesterday’s rehearsal. Her dress caught my eye, as did the stained glass of the … Read more
The last photograph was taken at the Miami Dolphins NFL match. The other images show that all genders are represented with shiny lips and that for women ubiquitous breast implants appear even on mannequins!
Here’s a picture I’ve scanned of my mum in a tree, taken before I was born. I’m not sure who took this picture, possibly the late Sam Roubini: Here are some pictures I’ve taken of people in trees. All of these were shot on Hampstead Heath:
There’s a small but interesting exhibition on at the moment at London’s ICA called “Paperwork: A Brief History of Artists’ Scrapbooks” which got me thinking about the various ways in which I collect images, potentially for inspiration but sometimes just to ponder and absorb or surround myself with. Here’s an example from the exhibition which … Read more
Here’s a picture I took of Jen during a break at an afro-cuban dance class on Saturday; I love the majestic shape of her hair in profile. And here’s a picture of Dave, one of the percussionists at choir rehearsal today.
I’m off to a gig in Mornington Crescent this evening. Last year I came across this graffiti on the way to Mornington Crescent just off Camden High Street; to me it sums up a type of jokey witticism that is manifested in the Yiddish “Chochmah”, derived from the Hebrew for wisdom. This is chochmah NW1 … Read more
I posted the other day about mannequins – I’m intrigued by their surreal, ambiguous quality. Child mannequins are often particularly “strange”. Here’s one I took today; it (I’m uncertain about its intended age and gender) struck me as odd partly because of the false eyelashes and closed mouth grin: The next two were taken in … Read more
Tel Aviv is full of vibrant graffiti including striking stencil graffiti and hebrew text. However amongst all of this I started noticing some naive childlike scratchings – a bit like a non-smiley emoticon with or without an armless body – in many locations over the the city. Here are some of them. I also came … Read more
